Deadline: 1 March 2016
Nominations are open for the Right Livelihood Award to honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing today.
The Right Livelihood Award recognizes that, in striving to meet the human challenges of today’s world, the most inspiring and remarkable work often defies any standard classification.
The Right Livelihood Award is not an award for the world’s political, scientific or economic elite, but an award for the people and their work and struggles for a better future. The Laureates come from all walks of life: they are farmers, teachers, doctors, or simply, concerned citizens.
This open nomination process works like a seismic detector of the most urgent problems of today and thus allows for timely, often even agenda-setting awards.
The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour and support those “offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today”. It has become widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ and there are now 162 Laureates from 67 countries.
The Right Livelihood Award aims to help the North find wisdom to match its science, and the South to find a science to match its ancient wisdom.
Normally, the Foundation makes three Cash Awards and one Honorary Award each year. The Cash Awards are intended for work in progress or the extension of existing activities; they are never given for personal use.
Through this open nomination process, the Foundation gets a sense of what people around the world perceive as the most urgent problems – and who develops ways to solve them.
Purpose
The purpose of the Foundation shall be by presentation of the Right Livelihood Awards, to promote scientific research, education, public understanding and practical activities which:
- contribute to a global ecological balance
- are aimed at eliminating material and spiritual poverty
- contribute to lasting peace and justice in the world.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any individual or organization from anywhere in the world can be nominated for the Right Livelihood Award 2016.
- Participant must be working in any of the field offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today.
- The Right Livelihood Award Foundation reserves the right to refuse clearly unsuitable proposals
- Proposals must not be publicised, except to the candidate and possible referees. Failure to observe this invalidates a proposal.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can submit their forms both electronically as a word document and as a paper copy via regular mail at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit Right Livelihood Awards.
